Author's Note: Yes, I decided to post this chapter up early, since a few people actually reviewed the last one! Yay! Thank you to my reviewers!

Okay, well, not much to say about this one… Oh, but if any of you read Hana-Kimi, I used a line from it in here. Well, actually, it was from the drama CD… I only found out about it because of a bonus in the manga, though. Anyways, all that's beside the point.

On with the story!

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"…Hayama?"

"…Sana?"

They were both in shock, because way too much had just happened. Hayama wasn't letting it show much, but Sana's jaw looked like it was about to fall to the ground. There was a long silence in which neither of them knew what to say. They had just kissed, and now they were back in their own bodies.

"Well… This is… Weird," Sana said slowly, starting to feel awkward again.

Suddenly, Hayama stepped towards her again. She resisted the urge to step back, away from his intense stare. Then, he did something that she definitely wasn't expecting. He hugged her. 'Finally, I can do this again,' he thought, marveling at how perfectly she fit into his arms. "You're always slipping through my fingers even though my arms were made to hold you. I won't let that happen again," Hayama said, then mentally kicked himself for sounding so idiotic.

However, Sana hadn't really noticed the cheesiness of what he had said. She was still trying to figure out everything that was going on. Slowly, she lifted her own arms and wrapped them around him, tears of joy welling up in her eyes but not falling.

When Hayama pulled back, he saw the tears about to pour out from her eyes. "What's wrong?" he asked, showing a hint of worry in his own eyes.

Sana looked up, confused, then realized that she was almost crying. She wiped her eyes until they were dry. "Nothing… Akito," she said hesitantly.

"…What'd you call me?" he asked, thinking he must have been hearing things.

"… Akito," Sana said, a bit louder, but still softly, nervous about what might happen next.

Then, Akito pulled her back again and kissed her, pulling her closer to him with one arm.

Sana kissed him back almost instantly. For a moment, she wondered why she wasn't hitting him on the head with her mallet, but the thought slipped away as quickly as it had come when Akito deepened the kiss.

After a few seconds, she pulled away, suddenly remembering the promise she had made for what seemed like years ago, when, in reality, it had only been two or three days ago. "Akito, I… I… I love you!" she said. It started as a whisper and steadily grew louder until she was all but yelling.

Akito didn't let her go. In fact, he just pulled her closer, struggling, trying to get the words out of his own mouth. "I… Don't hate you," he said quietly, mentally kicking himself again.

Sana smiled into his shirt. She hadn't been expecting a love confession right away from him, but she knew this was his equivalent. Finally, she had cracked the Akito Hayama code, and she was happy with it. That is, until she remembered how worried everyone at her house must be and wondered how long they had been standing outside Akito's house.

She stepped back. "I should go home now… Looks like you won't have to give me those math answers after all," she said, joking and giving him a small smile. There was another long pause, once again broken by Sana. "Akito… Would you… Like to go out with me?"

Akito stared at her, amazed. She seemed so shy and vulnerable right now, a side of herself that she rarely showed.

"… I'll take that as a no," Sana said, discouraged by the silence. She grinned, but she really felt like she was going to cry. "Well, I'll see you at school tomorrow… Hayama," she said, turning around.

She was stopped by Akito grabbing her wrist, spinning her around, and pulling her towards him for one last kiss for the night. "… Is that a good enough answer for you?" he asked.

Sana grinned, but this time, it was real. She nodded and turned again, running in the direction of her house. "Bye!" she yelled, waving at him.

Sana ran all the way back to her house, not stopping even once. She burst through the door, leaning back to close it behind her after she stepped inside. Her mother drove by in her mini-car, seeing Sana's face and instantly knowing generally what had happened. "Ohohoho, my little girl must have a boyfriend!" she said before driving away quickly, Onda following close behind her.

Lucky for Rei, he hadn't heard what Misako said, as he had stepped into the room right after she left. "Sana, I'm glad you're back! You were gone on Saturday, so you missed Komowari! And that commercial!"

Sana nodded, bored, not paying much attention. She had too many other things on her mind.

"And you'll have to make up with commercial, and you're going to be a guest star in a special drama next weekend! Oh, and this!" Rei continued, pointing into a book that he had filled with plans for Sana's jobs.

"Yeah, yeah, sure, whatever Rei," Sana said, still not paying any attention to her poor manager.

"Oh, and don't forget, this new commercial on Saturday has Naozumi as your co-star!" Rei said, smiling.

It was no good, though. Sana was already halfway up the stairs. She walked down the hall to her room, shut the door behind her, and plopped onto her bed, staring at the ceiling. She slowly lifted her finger to her lips, another small smile creeping onto her face.

"Ohohoho, my little girl must have a boyfriend!" Her mother's voice came back to her in her head.

"Boyfriend…" she repeated the word slowly, trying to get used to the sound of it. It sounded right, normal, but so strange and new. Then again, it was strange and new.

Suddenly, Sana jumped up, grabbing her piano. "Hayama is…" she started out, then shook her head and restarted, dancing happily around her room as she sang.

"Akito is my boyfriend,
It sounds so weird!
Akito is my boyfriend,
And my problem's cleared!

I'm in my own body,
And in my own room,
And maybe someday,
He'll be an awesome groom!"

Sana stopped for a second, turning bright red. 'I can't believe I actually just said that,' she thought. 'Oh well, at least nobody was here to hear it.' Little did she know, Misako, Rei, Onda, and Shimura were all listening at the door.

"Ohoho, so it is that Hayama boy!" Ms. Kurata said, laughing quietly. Meanwhile, Rei was crumpled up on the floor, crying, and Onda and Shimura weren't sure what to think.

"Please, I need that manuscript!" Onda said, joining Rei on the floor and crying.

Misako just ignored him, driving away while thinking about her daughter and Akito. Meanwhile, in Sana's room, her song continued.

"Everything is great,
And I'm so happy!
So everybody sing now,
Make it snappy!

Happy,
Happy,
Akito was so
Sappy!

Happy,
Happy,
And this song's
Really crappy."

She ended the song, blushing again, wishing her mind wasn't wandering so much. Her song had turned out worse than usual. "Oh well," she said, collapsing onto her bed again and sighing contentedly. She pulled the blanket around herself and was asleep within minutes, despite the fact that wasn't anywhere near late enough for most people to be sleeping. "Akito's my boyfriend," she said, smiling, just before drifting off into dreamland.

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Author's Note: Okay, yeah, the song was really bad, but I haven't written a song in a really long time. In the first verse, to rhyme with weird, I was tempted to put something about Akito growing a beard, just to match Sana's randomness, but I didn't…

Yay! I can finally start calling him "Akito" again! I wanted to earlier on, but I had this part planned out pretty much since I started writing this, so I didn't want to ruin it... Yes, I'm just weird like that.

Anyways, sorry if this chapter was short, but please review! It encourages me to write chapters faster (like I did for this one).